Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-27
TELECRAPHIC SUMMARY.
IN Evitens Of The Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

At the election IN Dakota maJori'y
of about 5000 was given IN favor Oh
division of the Territory.
Gov. Calican, of Mexico, has offered
reward of $4,000 for the capture OF
Erachio Bernal, head OF a formidable
band of desperadoes.
The American Baseball Association
has reelected Wheeler Wyckoff presl-
dent and Chris. Won der Abe, OF st.
Louis, vice president.
At Montrose. Iowa, Thomas Ellis,
Jr.. who was being sued for divorce by
his wife, went to her house and shot
her fatally. He then killed himself.
Mrs. John Evans, wife of miner 10
Scranton, Pa, killed her 5-year Ola
son. Just after her husband had lett
for his work the woman procured a
Ratchet and literally chopped the
child's head to pieces.
The Gov eminent of New South
Wales offers a reward of $125,0OO to
American inventors for any process
which will exterminate rabbits, which
have become pest throughout Aus
tralia and New Zealand.
At Brookville, Kansas, the Lawrence
hotel, six business houses and three
dwellings burned. Four men burned
to death. The guests OF the hotel
were obliged to jump from the second
story windows.
Jumping Dog, the Indian who
burned the agency building at Fort
Bennett, Dakota, was captured and
lodged in the guard house at Fort
Bennett. He attacked the guards
with a pair of shears, killed two OF
them and then killed himself.
The last mail advices received from
Upper Congo say that Tippoo lib had
not yet sent the promised carriers to
Stanley's rear guard at Yambuya to
convey the stores for Emin Bey, and
that Stanley had proceeded without
them. Many of the men mad died
, from starvation.
The farmhouse of Michael Harris
fourteen miles from Washington, Da
kota, burned. The entire family o.
nine persons were burned to death
Another report says that Mrs. Harris
and six of her seven children persisted
and that Mr.. Harris and the oldes
-, child, daughter, escaped, severely
burned
= A sherif''s jury assessed damages
=, amounting to 50, 1914 500 against Guz
:, man Blanco, president of Venezuela
- in suit brought by George Wilson, il
New York city, in consequence of thu
revocation of lease of 100000 acre
u of land in Venezuela. Judgment 10
y the amount was entered. Blanco di
u not defend the suit.
, A gentleman writing from Bavispt
II the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES section {
i Mexico, paints startling picture {
the condition of the people. The Ell
tire town was destroyed, and man
Y were killed. 1t is said earthquake
q were of daily occurrence, except il
Y tervals of two weeks, during whic
= time the people built temporary shar
- ties.
= The National Republican Committe
decided to hold the next conventio
= in Chicago, by the following vote
u Number of ballots cast, At; necessar
to choice, "a; of which Chicago r,
ceived %, Omaha l, Cincinnati L
Minneapolis 8. The time for holdin
rs the convention was fixed for Tuesda,
the 18th of June. A resolution wf
er adopted allowing the Tersitories
lie Dakota and Washington to elect fot
ID contingent delegates in addition
l. two regular delegates, whose admissio
81 will be decided by the convention.
e. While passenger train on the Kal
IS sas City, st. Joseph & Council Bluff
e. road was standing at the depot
I'd Percival, a freight train ran into
tie telescoping the sleeper and bad
IS wrecking the rest of the train.
it printer named Clarence Wright and
IN tramp, name unknown, were kille
~ There were ten people in the sleepe
10 all of whom were bruised more or les
re The accident is said to have bee
d. caused by dense fog which preventt
an the freight men from seeing the pa
f. senger train until it was too late.
or A horrible holocaust occurred
I'd Wausau, Wis. The building occupie
I'd as residence by Carl Honikel burne
tn and Honikel and three children pc
in lshed. Two other children have SIM
m died of injuries, and the mother is
y. serious condition. Fire started
or the kitchen, and the family doubtle
v suttocated before the flames reache
,is them. The casualty is one of the mo
Of dreadful that has happened in IL
~ vicinity, and what makes it more tie
oJ rlble is the discovery that the fire w
~ OF incendiary origin.
The annual report of First Assista,
,e- Postmaster General Sthepbense
ge shows the number OF postoffices G
be tablished during the past fiscal We
k, was 3O43. The increase in the who
no number was 1543. The whole numb
,rs OF postotfices in operation on June 2
.af 1887, was 55,l57. Appointments
MT postmasters during the year were
in follows: On designations and co,
Nv missions expired, 6,S63; on removs
~ and suspensions, 1854; on deaths
~ postmasters, $50; on establishment
49, new offices, 3,043. There were sew,
a. states which on June 80 contain,
io more than 1000 Offices each, as {,
80. lows: Pennsylvania Ala, New Yo
~ 40 524S, Ohio 1884, Virginia 1855, II
' nois 2266, Missouri 2,l17, and Nor
,e' Carolina 2,ll0. The excess of expe